- By Paul Glynn
- Entertainment reporter
The star used to current Channel 4’s Big Breakfast and TFI Friday, in addition to the Radio 1 and Radio 2 breakfast exhibits
DJ Chris Evans has informed listeners he’s now away from pores and skin most cancers, eight weeks after he was first identified.
The Virgin Radio UK presenter, 57, revealed final month that docs had caught it shortly that means it was “as treatable as most cancers can presumably be”.
In an on-air update on Wednesday, Evans stated he had undergone surgical procedure final week, and that surgeons had since given him the all-clear.
He added he had barely slept since receiving an update from his surgeon.
“I by no means thought for a second you might lose an evening’s sleep due to an e mail like this,” he stated on the present.
Reading the e-mail out loud, co-presenter Vassos Alexander quoted the surgeon as saying: “I’ve forwarded the pathology report. It is good news.
“There isn’t any residual illness. You have the all-clear.”
Evans defined he had the surgical procedure final Thursday, following a telephone dialog together with his dermatologist, who informed him that the freckle – initially discovered on his leg by his masseur – “had moved, metastasised, was malignant” and would have to be “eliminated”.
“And so, at quarter-to-four final Thursday, I had most cancers and at quarter-to-five, I did not,” he beamed. “And I simply discovered that out final evening.
“And that is as a result of time is your largest weapon towards it, if in case you have an abundance of it, and its largest weapon towards you if in case you have a scarcity of it.”
He went on to induce listeners with most cancers signs to get themselves checked. “If you are nervous about something, simply keep in mind the truth that eight weeks in the past I used to be identified with most cancers and now I haven’t got it in any respect,” he stated.
“And that is why you simply have to attend to issues. And it is actually powerful, as a result of for years I used to be the man who would not go anyplace close to that. But you already know, instances have modified, thank God.”
It comes eight years after the previous BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 broadcaster was given the all-clear following a earlier prostate most cancers scare.
